Editing 1946 (section)

===May===
[[File:Land Rover ‘Defender 2,000,000’ Sells for Record £400,000 at Bonhams Charity Auction (23776501966) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|Dame [[Joanna Lumley]]]]
[[File:MICHAEL_ROSEN_2022_(54).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Rosen]]]]
[[File:Candice Bergen (8250487588).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Candice Bergen]]]]
[[File:Donovan 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Donovan]]]]
[[File:Pressekonferenz Aktion Birlikte - Zusammenstehen-8395.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Udo Lindenberg]]]]
[[File:Reggie Jackson - New York Yankees - 1981.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Reggie Jackson]]]]
[[File:André the Giant in the late '80s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[André the Giant]]]]
[[File:Cher in 2019 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cher]]]]
[[File:George_Best_(1976).jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Best]]]]
[[File:Irena Szewinska 2007 AB.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Irena Szewińska]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Joanna Lumley]], English actress, author
* [[May 2]]
** [[Lesley Gore]], American rock singer ("[[It's My Party (Lesley Gore song)|It's My Party]]") (d. [[2015]])
** [[Ralf Gothóni]], Finnish pianist, conductor and composer
* [[May 3]] – [[Mohammed Ibrahim (businessman)|Mohammed Ibrahim]], Sudanese-British businessman and philanthropist
* [[May 4]]
** [[John Watson (racing driver)|John Watson]], Northern Irish racecar driver
** [[John Barnard]], English engineer and racing car designer
** [[Gary Bauer]], American civil servant, activist and politician 
* [[May 5]]
** [[Jim Kelly (martial artist)|Jim Kelly]], African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. [[2013]])
** [[Kebby Musokotwane]], Prime Minister of Zambia (d. [[1996]])
** [[Beth Carvalho]], Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Eddie Aikau]], Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer (d. [[1978]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Daouda Malam Wanké]], 6th President of Niger (d. [[2004]])
** [[Susan Brownmiller|Susan Brown]], English actress
* [[May 7]]
** [[Bill Kreutzmann]], American drummer ([[Grateful Dead]])
** [[Michael Rosen]], British poet and children's author
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Candice Bergen]], American actress
** [[Yoel Bin-Nun]], Israeli [[Religious Zionism|religious Zionist]] rabbi, a founder of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Gush Emunim]], [[Michlelet Herzog]], [[Alon Shvut|Alon Shevut]] and [[Ofra]]
* [[May 10]]
** [[Donovan]], Scottish rock musician
** [[Birutė Galdikas]], Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author
** [[Graham Gouldman]], English songwriter, musician ([[10cc]], [[Wax (pop band)|Wax]])
** [[Dave Mason]], English rock musician ([[Traffic (band)|Traffic]])
** [[Murade Isaac Murargy]], Mozambican diplomat, politician
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Robert Jarvik]], American physicist, artificial heart inventor
** [[Ana Amado]], Argentine journalist, filmmaker, academic and feminist (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Richard Bruce Silverman]], John Evans Professor of Chemistry at [[Northwestern University]]
* [[May 13]] 
** [[Tim Pigott-Smith]], English actor, author (d. [[2017]])
** [[Basil Al Bayati]], Iraqi-born architect and designer
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Claudia Goldin]], American economic historian, recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/|date=2023-10-09}}</ref>
** [[Paul Broun]], American physician and politician
** [[Elmar Brok]], German politician 
* [[May 15]] – [[Aly Bain]], Scottish fiddler 
* [[May 16]]
** [[Robert Fripp]], British progressive rock guitarist, composer and producer
** [[Olav Anton Thommessen]], Norwegian composer
* [[May 17]] – [[Udo Lindenberg]], German musician<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1999|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0257-7|pages=265/6}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] 
** [[Reggie Jackson]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksre01.shtml|title=Reggie Jackson Stats|website=Baseball Reference|access-date=April 16, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Andreas Katsulas]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
** [[Ken Kwaku]], Ghanaian corporate governance expert
* [[May 19]]
** [[André the Giant]], French professional wrestler and actor (d. [[1993]])
** [[Claude Lelièvre]], Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
** [[Roger Sloman]], English actor
** [[Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco]], Brazilian physician and professor
* [[May 20]]
** [[Craig Patrick]], American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager
** [[Cher]], American actress, rock singer
* [[May 22]] 
** [[George Best]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[2005]])
** [[Howard Kendall]], English footballer (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 23]] 
** [[Frederik de Groot]], Dutch actor
** [[Gary Barnett]], American football player and coach
* [[May 24]]
** [[Tansu Çiller]], Turkish politician, [[Prime Minister of Turkey]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jalalzai |first1=Farida |title=Shattered, Cracked, Or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide |date=28 March 2013 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-994353-1 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5yOS_qcK2oC&pg=PA214}}</ref>
** [[Irena Szewińska]], Polish Olympic sprinter (d. [[2018]])
** [[Nicolau dos Reis Lobato]], East Timorese politician, acting [[President of East Timor]] (d. [[1978]])
** [[Jackie Berroyer]], French actor, comedian and writer
* [[May 26]] – [[Mick Ronson]], English guitarist (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Alma Adams]], American politician
* [[May 28]]
** [[Bruce Alexander (actor)|Bruce Alexander]], English actor
** [[K. Satchidanandan]], Malayalam poet
* [[May 29]] – [[Fernando Buesa]], Basque politician (d. [[2000]])
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Dragan Džajić]], Serbian footballer
** [[Candy Lightner]], American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
* [[May 31]] – [[Adriana Bittel]], Romanian writer